Chef

Designing and delivering food that directly supports training loads, match performance and recovery. You’ll work closely with performance, medical and coaching teams to translate nutritional strategy into outstanding, tailored meals, ensuring every dish is purposeful, performance-led and appealing to a multi-national squad. We’re looking for someone credible, creative and highly knowledgeable in sports nutrition catering, not just great food but the right food.

• Design and deliver performance-focused menus aligned to training cycles and match demands
• Produce meals with clear nutritional breakdown and purpose
• Tailor individual meals to player dietary needs, allergies and performance goals
• Lead high-quality food provision across the training ground restaurant
• Collaborate with medical and performance staff on nutrition strategy
• Educate and positively influence player food choices
• Deliver recovery and pre‑match food preparation standards
• Create globally inspired dishes for a multi-national squad
• Manage kitchen operations, hygiene, safety and food standards
• Lead, develop and upskill kitchen staff
• Control stock, ordering and budgets
• Deliver occasional education sessions on cooking, nutrition and food hygiene
• Support Academy catering standards and youth performance menus
• Travel with the first team for domestic and international fixtures when required
• For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

• Proven experience as a Performance Chef or Sports Nutrition Chef
• Direct experience catering within elite or professional sport
• Strong working knowledge of performance nutrition principles
• Experience delivering tailored athlete meal planning
• Relevant professional catering qualifications
• Strong leadership and kitchen management capability
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to engage athletes and staff
• Experience managing food standards, compliance and hygiene at high level
• Ability to work under pressure in performance environments

Working with Sodexo Live! is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way.

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues and larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work-related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and other services.
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Membership of the Sodexo Retirement Plan.
• Death-in-Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo.
• Opportunities to grow and succeed through learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues reduce their environmental footprint while keeping fit.
• Volunteering opportunities to support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment.

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities.

We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

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We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

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Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.